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Where Are New Co-ops Emerging? The Changing Map of Co-op Development

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By Courtney Berner, Aine Creedon
| Nonprofit Quarterly Verified
These days, the presence of cooperatives across the United States is nearly universal. The largest sector is financial cooperatives, better known as credit unions. As of September 30, 2021, the National Credit Union Administration reports that 128.6 million Americans are member-owners of federally insured credit unions, which works out to about 38.6 percent of the nation’s population. But the extent of cooperative business activity varies widely across regions and business sectors.
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Graduate Student Workers Are in the Frontline of the Growing Labor Movement

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By Rithika Ramamurthy, Gary Cunningham, Courtney Berner
| Nonprofit Quarterly Verified
The position of a graduate student worker at an Ivy League or similarly elite private university is unusual. On the one hand, the student worker works in one of the wealthiest institutions in the country. On the other, the benefits of that luxury and wealth fail to reach teaching and research assistants who provide essential labor that allows those elite institutions to function. The COVID economy has only made this contradiction more vivid.
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Beyond Equity: Targeted Universalism and the Closing of the Racial Wealth Gap

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By Rithika Ramamurthy, Courtney Berner, Gary Cunningham, Aine Creedon
| Nonprofit Quarterly Verified
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash This article is part of our weekly series—The Promise of Targeted Universalism: Community Leaders Respond—that NPQ is publishing in partnership with the national racial and economic justice nonprofit Prosperity Now. In this series, writers examine how targeted universalism—a narrative framework that advocates the use of targeted approaches to achieve universal goals—can inform efforts to close the racial wealth gap, community by community.
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